Five great NYC exhibits closing soon will fill your gap week between Christmas and New Year's Eve.
Fashion
Agent Provocateur
“Thierry Mugler: Couturissime” makes its grand finale at the Brooklyn Museum.
Photography
Picture Perfect
Legendary British photographer Chris Floyd has photographed everyone from Paul McCartney to Anthony Bourdain to Cate Blanchett. And he has stories, too.
The Art Scene
HOPPER TAKES NEW YORK
In a new Whitney exhibit, the Big Apple is the muse for America’s greatest realist painter.
Art
Paris is Burning
Could Paris reclaim the European art capital crown from London for the first time in decades?
Literature
“We’ll print it if it’s the last effort of our lives”
How two American women braved U.S. censorship laws to publish James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The Arts
Revisiting the Sixties
The Jewish Museum’s superb New York: 1962 - 1964 explores the city’s art scene at a time of potent social upheaval.
Photography
A New York Homecoming
A major retrospective celebrates artist William Klein’s 65-year career capturing the vivacity and complexity of New York City.
Eye Candy
Hot Parties of the Week
From opening night at TEFAF, to a private dinner for Sotheby’s May auctions, and a Bronx Museum of the Arts gala, this was a big week of art world parties.
At Auction
A Rare Brancusi Comes to Christie’s
Owned by art impresario Rue Carpenter, cofounder of The Arts Club of Chicago, the drawing traces its provenance to the master’s groundbreaking 1926 show in New York.
People
Poolside Revisited
The story behind the ultimate symbol of the Post War American Elite.
